Promise of World’s First Head Transplant Is Truly Fake News

December 15, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) – Canavero has told the media that a recent operation at China’s Harbin Medical University has demonstrated that it is possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels of a severed head. A similar operation on a live human will take place “imminently,” he proclaimed. So what could be wrong with offering a procedure that could give hope to those with horrible disabled injuries that leave their bodies immobile or to those dying of terrible diseases who might live on with a healthy donor body? Well, everything about Canavero’s activity is ethically wrong.